Several years ago I read that Fawcett had been one of the real-life inspirations for Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World. They never returned, giving rise to what has been described as "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century." In 1925, he set out to find it with his twenty-one-year-old son and his son's best friend. He became convinced that this impenetrable jungleĬoncealed the remnants of an ancient civilization, which he named, simply, the City of Z. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, he explored the Amazon, a wilderness area virtually the size of the continental United States. He was the last of the great territorial explorers who ventured into blank spots on the map with little more than a machete, a compass, and an almost divine sense of purpose.
The Afterword: For those who need to do a little brushing up on their explorers, who was Percy Fawcett?
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